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SAS Announces Our New Crowdfunding Site

SAS announces its new crowdfunding site Measure Venture. Be one of the first to get your science idea funded by the spectroscopy community. View current projects or launch your own today! Measure Venture brings measurement instrumentation, sample handling, science training inventors and investors their own space for science-focussed crowd-funding. By scientists, for scientists, "Measure Venture" fills a gap for entrepreneurial measurment scientists. Measure Venture also provides crowd-funding options for scientific events and charitable activities.

Happy New Year and Happy 60th Anniversary to SAS!

SAS Celebrates 60 Years of Service to the Spectroscopy Community in 2018!!! Check back for continuous updated information on special anniversary events.

SAS announces new spectroscopy CERTIFICATION program. Click HERE for more information on how you can enchance your career credentials by getting SAS CERTIFIED!

SAS Member Only Benefits

Make sure you are maximizing your SAS membership by taking advantage of member ONLY benefits. Benefits include online access to the journal Applied Spectroscopy, Essential FTIR® Spectroscopy Toolbox software, Hotel Storm hotel discounts, Working Advantage discount program membership, Office Depot discounts, and more to come. Click Here to get more information on these benefits. NOTE: You must be logged in to the SAS site to access these member's only benefits.

One of the world's leading spectroscopy journals

Welcome to our 71st year!

A roadmap for peer review: Revisting Erica Frank's 1996 suggestions

In 1996 Dr. Erica Frank wrote a series of editor-reviewer “ideal” communications. Revisiting these suggestions, Michael Blades editor of the journal Applied Spectroscopy, explores if over two decades later the notion of the “still-imperfect art” of peer review remains the same today, presenting the guide as a roadmap for the 21st century reviewer. Link to article

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Give the Gift of Membership

Do you have a colleague or student who does spectroscopy, but is not an SAS member? Membership in SAS makes the perfect gift for any occasion. Your gift includes monthly online access to Applied Spectroscopy plus a whole host of other great benefits to enhance your recipients career. Normal online membership rates for regular members are $85 and for students $30, but we are giving you a holiday gift giving discount of $35 off ($50) for a regular member and $20 off ($10) for a student member.

To purchase your gift memberships please contact the SAS office at 301-694-8122 or email us at sasadmin@s-a-s.org with the recipient's name, address, email, phone, and type of membership you would like to give and we will invoice you. We'll also send your recipient a note letting them know you thought of them! If you prefer to give your gift personally, we would be happy to mail you a gift certificate.